Scientific Reports, 61 skeletons from the Jebel Sahaba cemetery were re-examined, revealing over 100 previously undocumented healed and unhealed injuries.
Several wounds even had lithic artifacts from weaponry like spears, still embedded in them.The article states: "Most trauma appears to be the result of projectile weapons and new analyses confirm for the first time the repetitive nature of the interpersonal acts of violence."Indeed, a quarter of the skeletons with lesions exhibit both healed and unhealed trauma."We dismiss the hypothesis that Jebel Sahaba reflects a single warfare event, with the new data supporting sporadic and recurrent episodes of inter-personal violence, probably triggered by major climatic and environmental.
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